supernova

See also: supèrnova and Supernova

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

super- + nova

Noun

supernova (plural supernovas or supernovae)

1. (astronomy) A star which explodes, increasing its brightness to typically a billion times that of our sun, though attenuated by the great distance from our sun. Some leave only debris (Type I); others fade to invisibility as neutron stars (Type II).

Derived terms

• supernova remnant

Related terms

• nova
• dwarf nova
• hypernova
• red nova

Translations

exploding star

• Basque: supernoba
• Belarusian: звышновая f (zvyšnovaja)
• Bulgarian: свръхнова (bg) f (svrǎhnóva)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 超新星 (zh) (chāoxīnxīng)

• Czech: supernova f
• Dutch: supernova (nl)
• Esperanto: supernovao
• Estonian: supernoova
• Finnish: supernova (fi)
• French: supernova (fr) f
• German: Supernova (de) f
• Greek: υπερκαινοφανής (el) m (yperkainofanís)
• Hungarian: szupernóva (hu)
• Icelandic: sprengistjarna (is) f
• Irish: ollnóva
• Italian: supernova (it) f
• Japanese: 超新星 (ja) (ちょうしんせい, chōshinsei)
• Jèrriais: supèrnova m
• Korean: 초신성 (ko) (chosinseong) (超新星 (ko))
• Latvian: pārnova f, supernova f

• Lithuanian: supernova f
• Macedonian: супернова f (supernova)
• Maltese: supernova f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: supernova

  Nynorsk: supernova

• Persian: ابرنواختر (abar-nou-axtar)
• Polish: supernowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: supernova (pt) f
• Russian: сверхновая звезда f (sverxnóvaja zvezdá), сверхновая f (sverxnóvaja), супернова f (supernóva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: супернова f

  Roman: supernova f

• Slovak: supernova f
• Slovene: supernova f
• Spanish: supernova (es) f
• Swedish: supernova (sv) c
• Turkish: süpernova (tr)
• Ukrainian: наднова зірка f (nadnová zírka), наднова f (nadnová)
• Vietnamese: siêu tân tinh (vi) (超新星)

See also

• nova

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Finnish

Etymology

super + nova

Noun

supernova

1. supernova (exploding star)

Declension

Declension of supernova (Kotus type 10/koira)

	singular	plural
nominative	supernova	supernovat
genitive	supernovan	supernovien supernovainrare
partitive	supernovaa	supernovia
accusative	supernovan	supernovat
inessive	supernovassa	supernovissa
elative	supernovasta	supernovista
illative	supernovaan	supernoviin
adessive	supernovalla	supernovilla
ablative	supernovalta	supernovilta
allative	supernovalle	supernoville
essive	supernovana	supernovina
translative	supernovaksi	supernoviksi
instructive	—	supernovin
abessive	supernovatta	supernovitta
comitative	—	supernovineen

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.pɛʁ.no.va/

Noun

supernova f (plural supernovas or supernovae)

1. supernova

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Galician

Noun

supernova f (plural supernovas)

1. supernova

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Italian

Etymology

super- +‎ nova

Wikipedia ^it

Noun

supernova f (plural supernove)

1. supernova

Related terms

• nova

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Portuguese

Noun

supernova f (plural supernovas)

1. supernova

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

supernova f (Cyrillic spelling супернова)

1. supernova

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Spanish

Noun

supernova m (plural supernovas)

1. supernova